ajandmagnus

Sometimes Painting a Room is Moving Forward

Added 2022-09-04 19:22:27 +0000 UTC

Hey Family,

We've been away for a few weeks. It wasn't planned and it's my fault. It's been seven months since JJ left our family and for almost that long we'd just kinda left his room the way it was. Mostly just closing the door and forgetting about it. Well, we finally decided to get some paint and redo it. It sounds kinda strange but repainting it and cleaning it up has taken it from a room of sadness/strained memories to being a new room that's a part of our home again. I feel like it's cathartic and maybe the final "goodbye" I needed. I know how strange that sounds considering all he put himself and us through but at the end of the day we've now gone our separate ways and I still hold onto some regrets, which is normal. Maybe painting a room won't fix everything, but it's a step we needed to take towards moving forward.

That all being said, the reason we've been slow to move forward on the comics is because the storyline that's coming up is going to be a fictional account of some personal family experiences and I've been making sure I'm comfortable doing that. I believe in forgiving people's mistakes and moving forward, but what happens when people refuse to be accountable for their mistakes? What if they're not only not sorry but insist what they did was right/fair? Is it ok to air their mistakes to the world? At the end of the day I always want to make sure I stand behind any comics we create and I don't want to cause anyone grief. But some stories just have to be told so other people can learn from them and that's where I've landed. So we're back to work creating new comics. Things are going to get interesting. Thank you again for your patience with our nonsense, we really do appreciate it!

Big hug!

-Bryan